Adding with Regex

thepauler · 08-31-2014, 01:43 PM

I need to add a couple of thousand books to my library. The file names are structured like this:

Series-123 Title of Book (Author Name) 1989.txt

I created the following regex to manage the import and it tests out perfectly.

Code:

^(?P<series>.+)-(?P<series_index>\d{1,4}) (?P<title>.+)\((?P<author>.+)\) (?P<published>\d{4})

Once the book imports everything is right except the title, which is simply the file name minus the extension. While I can fix these with a regex on search and replace, I would like to avoid the extra step. Am I missing something in the preferences?

Any help would be much appreciated!

BookJunkieLI · 08-31-2014, 01:53 PM

Under Preferences=>Adding Books the very first check box is Read Metadata from file contents rather than file name. Make sure this is unchecked otherwise it uses the file name as the title since it didn't find any metadata in the file itself.

thepauler · 08-31-2014, 02:25 PM

That was it.

Thank you!!

08-31-2014, 01:43 PM	#1
thepauler Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 9642 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: iPad Min	Adding with Regex I need to add a couple of thousand books to my library. The file names are structured like this: Series-123 Title of Book (Author Name) 1989.txt I created the following regex to manage the import and it tests out perfectly. Code: ^(?P<series>.+)-(?P<series_index>\d{1,4}) (?P<title>.+)\((?P<author>.+)\) (?P<published>\d{4}) Once the book imports everything is right except the title, which is simply the file name minus the extension. While I can fix these with a regex on search and replace, I would like to avoid the extra step. Am I missing something in the preferences? Any help would be much appreciated! Last edited by thepauler; 08-31-2014 at 01:45 PM.

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08-31-2014, 01:53 PM	#2
BookJunkieLI Evangelist Posts: 435 Karma: 572984 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle 4, Nook Gl4, Nook STR, REB 1100, Ebookwise 1500,	Under Preferences=>Adding Books the very first check box is Read Metadata from file contents rather than file name. Make sure this is unchecked otherwise it uses the file name as the title since it didn't find any metadata in the file itself.

08-31-2014, 02:25 PM	#3
thepauler Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 9642 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: iPad Min	That was it. Thank you!!

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